@NYCMayorsOffice@DOEChancellor My friend, a NYC public school teacher, just told me that she and the other 75,000 TEACHERS in addition to ALL STAFF are REQUIRED to physically report to schools for IN PERSON PLANNING for the next THREE DAYS!? 1/
In 2005 I left an entry-level job at @NationInstitute—an org "dedicated to strengthening the independent press and advancing social justice and civil rights”—for a finance gig that almost doubled my salary. That night, I cried to my roommates for “selling my soul.”(thread)
Now, 15 years into a career as a financial writer, as I obsessively consume news about our deteriorating democracy, the rising power of misogynists and white supremacists, and the war on truth, I’m more haunted than ever by the ghost of my journalism degree.
